HCR diary 17.5.1822 "dinner party at Aders - a musical genius there Kiesewetter - whose performance when I was told it was super excellent I could perceive to be good"
Christoff Gottfried Kiesewetter 1777-1827 now most famous for the Stradivarius violin he owned. He was first violin at His Majesty's Chapel Royal Hanover and his first performance in England was at Drury Lane Theatre in 1821, see Morning Post 29.3.1821. He died in London in 1827
Kilburn 13.2.1805 at Joseph Johnson's
Perhaps William Kilburn DNB 1745-1818 artist and calico printer, his will PCC 1819
Kilkenny 25.9.1800 at mrs Plunket's
Perhaps Edmund Butler 1771-1846 who married 1793 Mildred dau of Robert Fowler (DNB 1724-1801 archbishop of Dublin) and was created Earl of Kilkenny 1793, but he was said to have been insane by 1799. Mary Kilkenny widow of St Pancras will PCC 1843
Kimberley 31.12.1800 at Mary Robinson's funeral, Old Windsor
PCC wills William Kimberley of Windsor 1809 (mentioned sons William Lewin & Avery, grandsons George & James, nephews Thmas saddler of Windsor and his brother a cooper in London, Mrs Huguenin 33 Haymarket London, her brother John Kimberley late grocer of Windsor, Mrs Keppel, friends Stephen Kinsey & wife, Joseph Cutting & wife, 10 Bartletts Bldgs Holborn, Mr Charles March late of Salt Hill but now of Dover St, Piccadilly) Thomas Kimberley 1812 Avery Kimberley grocer of Windsor 1813 wife Judith. Possibly one…
1.12.1793 dine at Jennings with Holcroft & King / 22.4.1795 King at Holcroft's / 14.5.1796 tea Reveley's with Woodford & King / 21.9.1796 dine at Reveley's adv C King / 7.3.1797 3 Kings call / 30.4.1797 Opie & King call (not in) / 7.11.1797 dine at Reveley's with King & Lowrys / 13.12.1797 King at Aldis's / 3.5.1800 Bedford House adv C King / 16.10.1800 meet (Shd) King / 7.12.1804 meet Marshall, (J King) & Lamb / 11.9.1805 (from Ipswich) coal coach with King, Waterhouse, & capitaine / 17.2.1812 mrs King calls / 13.1.1814 seek King / 14.1.1814 call on King / 17.1.…
C King at Reveley's 21.9.1796 / 3.5.1800 C King at Bedford House
Could be Charlotte Byrne (nee King) DNB 1782?-1825 dau of John King, or his son Charles
19.4.1802 write to Geo King / 20.4.1802 again
Abinger c7 f115-20 has George King's letter to Godwin of 17.4.1802 from Liverpool and his two further letters of 21.4.1802 and 22.4.1802. He was clearly a son of John King DNB c1753-1824, perhaps by a Scotch woman (Mary Barbara Mackay?), and claimed to have had no education but reading and writing and to have spent 9 months in a school in Yorkshire where the pupils were put to farm work. He had got into debt in London, gone to sea and ruptured his groin. In the first letter he said his father had discarded him, but by the second he had…
Morning Post 16.4.1795 LCS ad for subs for state prisoners received among others by Jeremiah King, 183 St John St, Clerkenwell
Jeremiah King otp = St Jas Clerkenwell 7.5.1792 Ann Mansfield otp banns sigs, wit Wm Chaplin
SunFire 1797 Jeremiah King 9 Green Walk, Southwark gent. No clear identification
JOHN KING 1753-1824
CURRENT TEXT "Although they lived as husband and wife for forty years it does not appear that they married."
SUGGESTED CHANGE <They married at St Chad Shrewsbury on 4 January 1790, when her son Augustus Butler was a witness.>
FURTHER AMENDMENT John King's death date should be August 1823 not August 1824. See Gents Mag Feb 1824 p184 and Morning Chronicle 23.8.1823
Jan 2015 the DNB has adopted my corrections and credited my website in the Sources. See also my unfinished Background Article, King of the Swindlers
19.12.1801 meet, at Fenwick's, Kingden, &c, £75
The surname spelt Kingden is virtually nonexistent, so this was probably Kingdon, common in Devon particularly, or Kingdom, less common. The only other amounts of money noted in Godwin's diary around this time were 4.9.1801 £30 to Ht (=Holcroft) and 11.12.1801 £262 (which had Ht beneath it in very small letters). Thomas Holcroft's letters to Godwin show that Godwin and James Marshall were looking after his financial affairs in London while he was in Europe. In his letter from Paris dated 1.1.1802 (Bodleian Abinger c7 f80-1) he…
See Castle Street East 1 to 15 &c in London Addresses dataset
No 10 Castle St East Land Tax 1796-1798 Messrs Kingdon & Davis 1800-1805 Peter Kingdon
SunFire 1792 Peter Kingdon & Richard Davis perfumers 402 Oxford St (Charles Braxtone gent, owner?) / Peter Kingdom bach otp = 20.7.1798 St Marylebone by lic Ann Stanley wid otp wits Elenr & Heny Masburne Marr Lic 19.7.1798 PK perfumer (and), 21 yrs & upwards. (A Joseph Kingdon had married an Ann Stanley 2.8.1792 St Giles Cripplegate) / will PCC Peter Kingdon of Enfield Highway wife Ann nephews Wm Toutt (?), Wm…
GODWIN DIARY: Kingsbury 11.6.1791 at Disney's, with Charlesworth
Benjamin Kingsbury formerly a dissenting minister at Warwick, by 1797 supplying razors, toothbrushes &c at 85 Piccadilly and 3 Mitre Court, Fleet St. According to Surman Index born 1765 at Warwick, studied 1783 at Daventry under Thomas Belsham (DNB 1750-1829), minister 1786 at High St Warwick, 1790 at Oat St, Evesham (see Worcester Archives 898.4/5196/2/i) "very clever, has good dispositions" "conduct has been very inpudent, and singular". He published 1791 Prayers for the Use of Families, 1792 The Christian…
7.1.1798 Kingslake at Holcrofts
Kingslake is a rare name but may have been an alternative spelling of Kinglake, as both are found chiefly around Taunton, Somerset in this period. The Coles and the Braddocks who were also at Holcroft's that night had West Country connections. Robert Kinglake (DNB 1765-1842) according to Farington's diary p630 met Richard Duppa (DNB 1768-1831) by arrangement in Dresden and they travelled together perhaps to Vienna, Constantinople and Rome. If this was him he was probably newly returned from Europe and soon to set up practice as a doctor at Hot Wells,…
On 13.3.1794 Godwin dined at Wedgwood's where Kinsman was present. On 26.9.1798 he met miss Kinsman near Watford. In (Abinger c.17 f66-7) is a copy of Godwin's letter to her about that meeting. In reply he got a letter from her brother H Kingsman who said he knew Godwin (Abinger c.4 f47-8). In the 1796 list E Kingsman is towards the end of 1798, and D Kingsman near the start of 1799. On 8.5.1799 at Langley-berry he saw Mrs and Misses Kingman. Dorothea and Emily were the daughters of William Long Kingsman of Langleybury, Herts. Dorothea died in 1800 (her will Nat Arch PROB11/1348). Emily…
22.6.1810 Kingston &c call
Godwin rarely shortened a list of callers with a &c (I sometimes shorten Godwin's lists with &c). In this case he did the same the day before, and on this day he followed it with a colon and a further list of callers. All of which suggests a number of undesired callers, or ones whose names were not worth remembering?
2 Kingstons 24.2.1803
See Cooper, Elizabeth Priscilla. John Kingston MP (1735-1820) Oporto wine merchant, and director of Sierra Leone Company, lived at Oak Hill, Barnet, and at Stratford Place (History of Parliamnet: will Nat Arch PROB11/1639)
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rt Hon Lord George Kinnaird proposed member 17.5.1782 by Edward Hall 2nded John Jebb
GODWIN DIARY lord Kinnaird 17.3.1795 at Bosville's, 6.11.1807 Kinnaird at Johnson's, 16.5.1828 Kinnaird at Reynolds'. In 1796 list.
George Kinnaird born 1754 succeeded as 7th Earl 1767 died 1805 so was presumably the first Godwin diary entry and the entry in 1796 list, also the SCI member, see Wikipedia. His sons Charles DNB 1780-1820 and Douglas DNB 1788-1830 were both possible for the other two entries which didn't mention any title, Ds Kinnaird is…
GODWIN DIARY see his person record in GD website
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rev Dr Andrew Kippis of Crown St, Westminster original member May 1780
Andrew Kippis (DNB 1728-1795)
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Capt John Kirkby of Worksop Notts proposed member 8.9.1780 by John Cartwright 2nded Thomas Bentley
Probably son of Henson Kirkby who was bapt 22.7.1722 Worksop son of Joshua & Mary (nee Henson married 20.4.1718 Osberton). Henson Kirkby married Frances Ashby at Worksop 21.3.1751, their dau Frances bapt there 13.2.1756 and their son John 7.1.1758. Will PCC 23.12.1776 Henson Kirkby dated 17.5.1776 mentioned house at Worksop, wife Frances, dau Frances and son John at College. John Kirkby of Notts Queens College Cambridge BA 1779. London Packet…